Report of the Annual Meeting of Assessment Working Group Chairs (AMAWGC)

The Annual Meeting of Assessment Working Groups Chairs [AMAWGC] is established to provide a mechanism to plan the annual work on the assessment working groups and specifi-cally to ensure that emerging requirements for the ICES advice, methodological developments and data issues are communicated and discussed with assessment working groups. The first meeting is held in 2005 following more specialised meetings with assessment working group chairs regarding precautionary reference points in 2003 (ICES SGPRP 2003) and long term advice in 2004 (ICES SGLTA 2004).